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The moments after a needlestick are filled with stress and anxiety for health care workers.
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More than 8,800 nurses suffered from a back, shoulder, or other musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) injury in 2004.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has named Swedish Medical Center in Seattle the winner of the inaugural Ernest Amory Codman Award in the disease-specific care category, for establishing a comprehensive program that deploys a coordinated team to assure comprehensive, timely, and efficient acute stroke care.
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Between 2001 and 2005, average length of stay in the ED at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago has dropped from 85 minutes to 45 minutes. Throughput has fallen from 308 minutes to 230 minutes during the same period. In addition, patient satisfaction scores (Press Ganey Associates, South Bend, IN) have increased from 74.6% to 84%.
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A 50% decrease in central-line infections and an increase in compliance with evidence-based practices from 30% to 95%. These are the dramatic results achieved by 10 hospitals participating in the two-year Greater Cincinnati Patient Safety ICU [Intensive Care Unit] Collaborative.
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Would you like some compelling evidence to present to administrators about a chronic safety problem? Do you want a foolproof way to achieve staff buy-in when a new patient safety initiative is implemented? How about finding out what staff really think about reporting safety concerns?
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Surgical infection prevention (SIP) performance measure sets are now available on the Joint Commissions Quality Check web site (www.qualitycheck.org). The evidence-based measures assess the overall use of antibiotics for surgical infection prevention.
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There appears to be an endless search for the ideal measurement instruments and techniques for evaluating patient satisfaction. Researchers and practitioners now have more than a decade of know-how in determining whether a patient is satisfied with his or her health care experience.
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After your disaster drills, do you identify areas that need improvement, and do you take steps to address these? Thats what JCAHO surveyors will want to know, with a revised standard effective July 1, 2006, requiring health care organizations to improve the planning and evaluation of emergency management drills.
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U.S. spending to treat trauma-related disorders nearly doubled between 1996 and 2003...